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How Safe is Your Food?

By Dr. Dan

Many people raise some good questions about food safety, ones well worthy of discussion. One prime topic is food safety.

Monsanto has legal, ethical and moral responsibility for its products. The problem with all moral precepts, however, comes when the proverbial rubber meets the road–how does one implement one’s moral responsibilities and, given that one can always consider doing more, how does one know when one has been sufficiently diligent?

But here’s a mindblower. Food is not absolutely safe–it never was and it never will be. We KNOW that food consumption has consequences for long term cardiovascular … Full Article »

Reasons We Do Need GM Foods: It is about improving nutrition

A couple of months ago, reading an article about world hunger, I found out that someone dies of starvation every 3.6 seconds. Can you imagine that? I tried to understand how we can let that happen but I couldn’t. So, I started wondering what are we–and specifically the scientific community–doing to help stop or even diminish a pandemic problem like hunger.

According to the World Health Organization, hunger and malnutrition are the single gravest threats to the world’s public health. Malnutrition is by far the biggest contributor to child mortality, present in half of all cases. So, world … Full Article »